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Permission To Die – The Harrowing Tale Of The 16 Carmelite Martyrs of Compiegne

Mike Church presents an original Podcast Feature: Permission To Die. Written, Produced, Directed and Narrated by Mike Church!

On 17 July, 1794, 16 Carmelite Nuns went to their deaths at the Guillotine scaffold in Paris for the crime of refusing to renounce their vows to God and Our Lady and instead vow allegience first and foremost to the French Congress. This riveting, heartbreaking yet courageous story is written, produced, directed and narrated by The KingDude and stars the voice talent of Jessica Mosher Drake and CRUSADE Channel News Anchor Celeste Youngblood. You’ve never heard a story of war-time courage involving women as captivating as this one!

On their official canonization in 2024 the Vatican said.

During the audience granted to His Eminence Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, prefect of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, the Supreme Pontiff approved the votes in favour of the Ordinary Session of Cardinals and Bishops, Members of the Dicastery, and decided to extend to the universal Church the cult of Blessed Teresa di Sant’Agostino (née Maria Maddalena Claudia Lidoine) and fifteen companions of the Order of Descalced Carmelites of Compiègne, martyrs, killed in odium fidei on 17 July 1794 in Paris, France, inscribing them in the Book of Saints